Spatial externality and indeterminacy

Externality Is a Source of Indeterminacy

Consumption externality and indeterminacy under increasing returns to scale and endogenous capital depreciation

Article history: Accepted 17 January 2014 Available online 15 February 2014 JEL classification: C62 E21 E22

Spatial Arrangements of Externality Generating and Receiving Activities

Many cases of externalities in agricultural production such as pesticide drift, crosspollination, and offensive odors are attributable to the incompatibility of neighboring land uses. This paper offers an examination of when an efficient activity arrangement is compatible with free-market incentives. Also, free-market and socially efficient activity arrangements are characterized in terms of sp...

Dealing with indeterminacy in spatial descriptions.

How do people tackle indeterminate spatial descriptions, that is those descriptions for which several representations are possible? Take for instance the two following statements: B is to the left of A, C is to the left of A. This description is indeterminate because it is compatible with at least two possibilities: (1) C B A; (2) B C A. Studies on human reasoning have shown that people tend to...

The Manipulation of Images to Handle Indeterminacy in Spatial Reasoning

In this article, we propose a novel method for using images to do spatial reasoning. The task we consider is to answer questions about descriptions involving spatial prepositional phrases. Psychological experiments suggest that imagery is an appropriate cognitive model of how people solve such problems when descriptions are determinate. However, natural language discourse often contains indeter...